Should a Photographer blur the license plate

[BrokenLinkage]

Seems the responsibility should fall to the driver to remove it, but a courteous and decent photog would ask before going public with images of someone else's car / tags at a private event, and only a total jerkwad would post someone else tags if specifically asked not to do so.
On the other hand, if you made a video strictly for private and personal use (ie NOT youtube) that incidentally happened to include someone else's tag, I don't see much harm if you can and will keep it private. After all, you were there, and are entitled to your memories, no matter how they are achived.
I know someone will ask "does the same logic apply in the bedroom?" No, there you need consent from both parties for even the private archive, precisely because the potential for both harm and abuse is higher.

[Timco]

Originally Posted by BrokenLinkage

Seems the responsibility should fall to the driver to remove it, but a courteous and decent photog would ask before going public with images of someone else's car / tags at a private event, and only a total jerkwad would post someone else tags if specifically asked not to do so.
On the other hand, if you made a video strictly for private and personal use (ie NOT youtube) that incidentally happened to include someone else's tag, I don't see much harm if you can and will keep it private. After all, you were there, and are entitled to your memories, no matter how they are achived.
I know someone will ask "does the same logic apply in the bedroom?" No, there you need consent from both parties for even the private archive, precisely because the potential for both harm and abuse is higher.

I do not 'post' things except here and another site. No FB, no Youtube. Even if I did, if I was invited to an event where cameras are welcome, there is no damn way I am blurring out some plate some driver was too lazy to obscure or remove, no matter how much they whined or cried about it. If it means that much, deal with it yourself. Call me a jerkwad I guess........

[Perfectlap]

at a track day, blue painter's tape works fine. Otherwise you had your chance.

If a car is photographed in public, you're also SOL as you have no expectation of privacy in public.

If you're the photographer and take your own picture, of your car on your property, with the plate on and post it online you're taking an unecessary risk for no good reason.

and let just add, all databases have been hacked. Public, corporate and especially govt.